Korean Psychological Journal of Culture and Social Issues
- P-ISSN : 1229-0661
- E-ISSN : 1229-0661
- Publisher : Korean Psychological Association of Culture and Social Issues
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Korean Psychological Journal of Culture and Social Issues
- P-ISSN1229-0661
- E-ISSN1229-0661
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Vol.32 No.2
8papers in this issue.
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The Effect of Humorous Cognitive Reappraisal on Negative Emotion Regulation in Emotional Labor Employees
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pp.127-150
https://doi.org/10.20406/kjcs.2026.5.32.2.127
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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of humor-based cognitive reappraisal on the regulation of negative emotions experienced during work among emotional laborers, specifically for mental health service professionals. A total of 40 mental health service workers were randomly assigned to one of four conditions: positive humor-based reappraisal (n = 11), negative humor-based reappraisal (n = 10), cognitive reappraisal (n = 9), or an emotion suppression condition (n = 10). Participants completed an online imagery-based training in which they listened to audio-recorded anger-inducing work scenarios and imagined, as vividly as possible, how they would regulate their emotions in those situations according to their assigned condition. Positive affect, negative affect, anger, and arousal were assessed before and after the treatment. Data were analyzed using a 4 (treatment type) × 2 (time) mixed-design analysis of variance. For positive affect, negative affect, and anger, the interaction effects between treatment type and time were not significant, whereas the main effects of time were significant. In contrast, a significant treatment type × time interaction effect was found for arousal, with the positive humor-based reappraisal group showing a decrease in arousal following the treatment. Finally, the limitations of the study, implications for future research, and the significance of the findings are discussed.
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The Effect of Meaningful Work on Safety Behavior among Field Workers: The Mediating Role of Professional Pride and the Moderating Role of Organizational Cynicism
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pp.151-176
https://doi.org/10.20406/kjcs.2026.5.32.2.151
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This study examined the effect of meaningful work on safety behavior among field workers, adopting a promotion focus perspective based on regulatory focus theory. In addition, it investigated the mediating role of professional pride and the moderating role of organizational cynicism in this relationship. While previous research on safety behavior has primarily focused on punishment and regulation based prevention approaches, this study explored the potential for enhancing safety behavior through a promotion-focused approach that emphasizes meaning and growth. A survey was conducted with 405 field workers, including production workers, and the mediating, moderating, and moderated mediation effects were tested using the SPSS PROCESS Macro. The results showed that, first, meaningful work had a positive effect on safety behavior. Second, professional pride significantly mediated the relationship between meaningful work and safety behavior. Third, organizational cynicism moderated the relationship between professional pride and safety behavior, with the positive effect of professional pride on safety behavior being strengthened when organizational cynicism was low. Finally, the moderated mediation effect of organizational cynicism was not supported.. This study reconceptualized safety behavior not as a passive act of accident prevention but as a proactive behavior for personal growth and organizational development. It also empirically demonstrated the importance of intrinsic motivation-based approaches to safety management. Based on these findings, practical implications for field safety management and directions for future research were discussed.
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pp.177-211
https://doi.org/10.20406/kjcs.2026.5.32.2.177
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This study aimed to develop and validate a scale measuring conflict coping behaviors in romantic relationships. An open-ended survey was conducted with 100 individuals in their 20s and 30s who had been in a romantic relationship for at least three months, yielding 269 statements. Prototype analysis and two rounds of expert content validation resulted in a 75-item preliminary scale. Exploratory structural equation modeling with 300 participants identified a final scale consisting of 32 items across six factors: positive repair, distancing, careful consideration, submission, rational coping, and expression of negativity. Especially, positive repair was interpreted as a proactive investment behavior for maintaining the relationship from the perspective of interdependence theory, whereas careful consideration reflected a cautious coping process involving both cognitive reflection and emotional processing that has not been sufficiently captured in existing scales. Each factor showed theoretically consistent correlations with existing conflict-related scales, empathy, communication, and personality traits. Criterion-related and incremental validity were supported using relationship satisfaction and stability as the criteria. A four-week test-retest reliability was also satisfactory. This study is meaningful in that it presents a Korean scale of conflict coping in romantic relationships that complements the cultural limitations of existing overseas measures and reflects contemporary communication contexts, including messenger and SNS interactions.
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The study examined the effect of self-differentiation on relational aggression, and the serial multiple mediation effects of antagonism and moral foundations between them. Based on the data obtained from 320 people in their 20s to 50s, multiple regression analyses showed that the level of self-differentiation, antagonism, and moral foundations had all significant effects on relational aggression. The mediation effect of antagonism was significant between self-differentiation and relational aggression, which means that the lower the self-differentiation, the higher the antagonism, and the higher the relational aggression. In addition, the mediation effect of binding foundations was significant, such that the lower the self-differentiation, the stronger the binding foundations, and the higher the relational aggression. The serial multiple mediation effects of antagonism and binding foundations were significant between self-differentiation and relational aggression. The higher the level of self-differentiation, the lower the level of antagonism, the stronger the level of binding foundations, and the higher the level of relational aggression. Based on the results, the implications of the study on preventing relational aggression were discussed.
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Psychological Characteristics and Correctional Treatment Outcomes of Sex Trafficking Facilitators and Rapists in Korea
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pp.233-249
https://doi.org/10.20406/kjcs.2026.5.32.2.233
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This study compared the psychological characteristics of sex trafficking facilitators and rapists in Korea, and examined differences in treatment responses to correctional psychological programs and recidivism outcomes. The sample included 493 facilitators and 6,416 rapists selected from 16,378 individuals released from 53 correctional institutions between 2015 and 2020. Demographics and offense-related characteristics, static recidivism risk, and cognitive-emotional variables were analyzed using t-tests, 眒2 tests, multivariate analyses, and repeated-measures MANOVA. Facilitators showed higher recidivism risk levels than rapists. Psychologically, facilitators scored higher on self-esteem, anger expression, and impulsivity, while scoring lower on rape myth acceptance, child molestation beliefs, loneliness, anger suppression, and anger control. Although therapeutic change was observed in both groups following treatment, facilitators demonstrated smaller improvements across several variables, indicating relatively limited treatment responsiveness. Follow-up data also revealed higher rates of sexual reoffending among facilitators. These findings suggest that even within the same sexual offender category, the mechanisms sustaining criminal behavior and the nature of treatment needs may differ substantially. While emotional deficits and cognitive distortions appear to function as primary risk factors among rapists, facilitators’ offending may be more closely associated with economic motives and an instrumental offending structure centered on organized control. Accordingly, differentiated assessment frameworks and tailored correctional psychological treatment programs are needed based on offense-type-specific risk factors and responsivity characteristics in accordance with the Risk-Need-Responsivity (RNR) principle.
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Latent Profile Analysis of Mentalization in Middle-Aged Adults with Adolescent Children and Examining Group Differences in Parenting Efficacy
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pp.251-274
https://doi.org/10.20406/kjcs.2026.5.32.2.251
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The objectives of this study were threefold: first, to classify latent profiles based on the mentalization patterns of middle-aged adults with adolescent children; second, to analyze the factors influencing group classification; and third, to examine differences in parenting self-efficacy according to the identified latent profiles. To achieve these purpose, data were collected from 600 adults with adolescent children, and latent profile analysis (LPA) was utilized. The results indicated that the mentalization patterns were classified into three latent groups, labeled as ‘low mentalization group’, ‘moderate mentalization group’, and ‘high mentalization group’ according to their characteristics. The analysis of influencing factors on latent profiles revealed that cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, emotional neglect, physical neglect, secure attachment, insecure attachment, somatization, depression and educational level had statistically significant effects on group classification. The analysis showed that cognitive parenting self-efficacy was highest in the high mentalization group, followed by the moderate mentalization group, and the low mentalization group. Conversely, anxiety and frustration in parenting was highest in the low mentalization group, followed by the moderate and the high mentalization group. Finally, based on these results, interventions and implications according to the latent profiles of mentalization were presented. This study is significant in identifying the characteristics of middle-aged adults based on their mentalization latent profiles and providing foundational data for exploring intervention strategies that consider the unique characteristics of each group.
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The Effects of Cultural Memory on Local Pride and Participation Intention: The Mediating Role of Affect-Based Local Identity
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pp.275-294
https://doi.org/10.20406/kjcs.2026.5.32.2.275
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This study examined the effects of cultural memory on local pride and participation intention through the mediating role of affect-based local identity among residents of Area A, a peripheral area of Seoul, using a structural equation modeling approach. The participants were 187 residents of four administrative neighborhoods in Area A (86 men and 101 women, aged 19 to 65 years). Data were collected from September to October 2025 through cooperation with local institutions as well as online communities and social networking services. Cultural memory, affect-based local identity, local pride, and participation intention were each measured with five items. Measurement model validation (EFA/CFA) and structural model analyses were conducted using SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 28.0. The results showed that cultural memory had a significant positive effect on affect-based local identity, and affect-based local identity had significant positive effects on both local pride and participation intention. Bootstrap analyses with 5,000 resamples indicated that the indirect effects of affect-based local identity were significant for both outcome variables. In contrast, the direct effect of cultural memory on local pride was not significant, whereas its direct effect on participation intention was significant, indicating different patterns across the two outcome variables. These findings suggest that cultural memory may extend to evaluative attitudes (local pride) and behavioral intent (participation intention) through affect-based local identity in an urban peripheral context. The study also provides implications for considering affect-based local identity as a contextual factor in counseling, coaching, and mental health practice.
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This study theoretically reconceptualizes Rousseau's General Will—a cornerstone of 18th-century political philosophy—as a psychological construct for the 21st century. Amid an existential crisis in which Dataism supplants individual autonomy and dissolves communal bonds, this study translates Rousseau's theory of the state of nature, the bifurcation of amour de soi and amour-propre, the concept of denaturalization, and the common self (moi commun) into psychological language. Through this transposition, General Will Orientation (GWO) is proposed as a novel psychological construct comprising three subfactors: public good orientation, self-legislative agency, and emotional solidarity. This study argues that GWO is distinct from Kant's categorical imperative, Rawls's justice as fairness, Kohlberg's Stage 5 of moral development, and the VIA Classification of Character Strengths. Each framework illuminates morality from a different vantage point—autonomous legislation, procedural fairness, cognitive moral reasoning, and individual virtue—yet shares a common limitation in failing to integrate affective-motivational mechanisms with communal context. The psychological reality and measurability of GWO are demonstrated through its structural symmetry with psychopathy, representing the negative end of human morality. GWO is further positioned as an integrative alternative transcending the dichotomy between normative and virtue ethics. The infallibility of the General Will is reinterpreted not as an empirical claim but as a constitutive one, providing theoretical basis for translating a metaphysical imperative into a measurable psychological variable. GWO is anticipated to expand the scope of moral psychology with philosophical depth, serving as a psychological counterforce that safeguards human moral agency in the age of algorithmic governance.